Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-09-09
SCIENTIFIC BREEDING.

ton in the East, there was an Eng
lishman present who had made a
fortune in breeding roses.
He started out on the theory that
anything that had sex could be
bred, and he has brought his vari-
GUS breeds of roses to such a per-
lection that he recently sold mag
nificent rose plant for $4,000, and
the cuttings of another growth for
$4,000. He has succeeded in pro-
ducing white rose nearly the size
of a mans hat, and the New York
firm that purchased his cuttings
were forced to sign a contract that
they would not place the roses on
the market for five years.
This goes to show how much
value can be extracted from SO
small thing as the rose, if one
puts care and brains into the Guilt
walton of the plant.
No doubt other men in England
have planted roses for sale, raising
them by the acre and selling them
at few cents per bunch. They
have kept this up for years and
made barely living. But the man
with an experimental, investigating
mind takes a square rod of land,
and with the roses he raises on it
amasses a fortune. These facts ought
to show to the dullest man living
that scientific breeding pays.
The same care has brought the
American trotting horse up to that
magnificent standard of excellence
that has made him the wonder of
the world. Scientific men find inn
bedded in the ancient rocks, skele-
tons of perfect horses only seven or
eight inches long, but as perfect as
the skeletons of the modern horse.
Compare these little animals, about
the size of nut, to the supurb beasts
of today, moving like mighty ma
chimes over race track, or bending
their frames 10 the work of pulling
tons of merchandise over modern
roads.
One horse owner will cross his
mare with a scrub stallion and sell
the progeney when three or four
years old for $50 after it has eaten
its head off twice. His neighbor
will pay $50 for the service of a
blooded sire, and sell the result for
$500 or 81 900. The mud head
who raised the $50 horse and ex-
pended $50 feeding him, will see
his neighbours horses selling at high
figures and never have the sense to
initiate his methods.
Cattle men in this State take up
hundreds of thousands of acres oil
land on which they inter-breed
scrubs which sell for $40 q head
where grades would bring $50, and
blooded stock $500.
1t does not occur to them to re-
strict their ranges, plant grass
store water, sink artesian wells anC
run bitches for irrigation, and cb
tain better results with less stool
and less ground. Some are begin
ming to do 1t, but the majority pre-
fer the old way.
The sooner the State is swept o
scrub horses, scrub cattle, scrul
dogs and scrub men, the better i
will be.
Nature has given US soil an,
climate that is equalled nowher
under the sun, and if we do no
take advantage OF IL IL Is our oW'
fault. On all sides one hears tn
opening notes of the boom, whicl
all thinking men have predicted TO
this State, and we must all sc
about abolishing the cruue an
ramshackle methods of the pas
and start right. Don't wait to Sc
how your neighbor comes out wit
his experiments, but strike the lea
yourself, and avoid business rela
tons with every old fraud an
growler who predicts failure.
THE CAPAY VALLEY LAM
COMP